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Capturing, Sharing, and Using Local Place Information

, , , and . Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007), page 1235-1244. San Jose, California, ACM Press, (April 2007)
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240811

Abstract

With new technology, people can share information about everyday places they go; the resulting data helps others find and evaluate places. Recent applications like Dodgeball and Sharescape repurpose everyday place information: users create local place data for personal use, and the systems display it for public use. We explore both the opportunities --- new local knowledge, and concerns --- privacy risks, raised by this implicit information sharing. We conduct two empirical studies: subjects create place data when using PlaceMail, a location-based reminder system, and elect whether to share it on Sharescape, a community map-building system. We contribute by: (1) showing location-based reminders yield new local knowledge about a variety of places, (2) identifying heuristics people use when deciding what place-related information to share (and their prevalence), (3) detailing how these decision heuristics can inform local knowledge sharing system design, and (4) identifying new uses of shared place information, notably opportunistic errand planning.

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